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I can understand that Paul Kent wants to see more footy. But I have to disagree with his assertion that a team that is good at wrestling does well in the competition. You're not going to win games doing more head locks, chicken wings and the like. A team that has a better defensive structure and strategy will. One of the main reasons why Melbourne won the comp because they nullified the Dog's ball playing forwards early.
Players are stronger and a lot faster today. They have the ability to break out of tackles easy. Hence why more effort is required to bring them down. The only way to eliminiate so called "wrestling" is for the player being tackled to surrender early like touch rugby. That way, you don't need 3 to 4 players in the tackle to pin him down.
I can understand that Paul Kent wants to see more footy. But I have to disagree with his assertion that a team that is good at wrestling does well in the competition. You're not going to win games doing more head locks, chicken wings and the like. A team that has a better defensive structure and strategy will. One of the main reasons why Melbourne won the comp because they nullified the Dog's ball playing forwards early.
Players are stronger and a lot faster today. They have the ability to break out of tackles easy. Hence why more effort is required to bring them down. The only way to eliminiate so called "wrestling" is for the player being tackled to surrender early like touch rugby. That way, you don't need 3 to 4 players in the tackle to pin him down.
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